260 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [C. macrochlamys. 
leaflets are lanceolate, oblanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic and almost equally tapering to 
both ends, plicate or doubled -backward and acute at the base, where more or less 
callous above at their insertion and also furnished beneath with another sometimes 
distinct callus inside the basal plica, rather shortly and suddenly acuminate in a 
slightly bristly-spinulous tip, papyraceous, rather firm, glabrous and dull on both 
surfaces, paler beneath, with an acute mid-costa and a few slender side-nerves, quite 
naked on both surfaces; margins acute, smooth, except towards the apex, where very 
finely spinulous, often bordered in the upper surface with a polished band ; transverse 
veinlets crowded, fine and much continuous; the side-leaflets 25-30 cm. long and 
4-5 em, in width; those of the lowest group narrower (2:5-3 cm.) and those of 
the terminal group shorter (17-20 cm.) but not narrower; the two of the terminal 
pair confluent and forming a forked flabellum. Male spadiz somewhat shorter than the 
leaves, forming a rather dense cupressiform panicle, in one specimen with 7 approxi- 
mate partial inflorescences, terminating in & short tail-like appendix which is sheathed 
with aculeolate spathes; primary spathes tubular, the lowest elongate (20 cm. long), 
very closely sheathing, somewhat flattened, biconvex in section, with the edges 
acute and quite smooth, obliquely truncate at the mouth and prolonged at one side 
into a triangular acuminate point; upper primary spathes much shorter, thinly 
coriaceous, cylindraceous, slightly enlarged above, truncate and entire at the mouth, 
where prolonged at one side into a triangular acuie point, armed with a few 
very small recurved aculei ; partial inflorescences inserted inside the mouth of their 
own spathe, arising erect from these and then spreading and arched, furnished with 
many secondary inflorescences which gradually decrease in length and number of 
spikelets from the base towards the summit; the largest secondary inflorescences have 
various (6—7) spikelets om euch side and these also decrease in size and number of 
flowers from the base upwards; the lowest partial inflorescence 20 em. in length, 
the upper ones gradually shorter; secondary and tertiary spathes infundibuliform, 
unarmed, finely striolate longitudinally, truncate at the mouth and prolonged at one 
side into a triangular subulately acuminate point; spikelets slender, inserted at the 
mouth of their own spathe with a distinct axillary callus, spreading or horizontal, 
slightly arched, comb-like when charged with flowers; the largest, the lowest, 2-3 cm. 
long with 13-15 flowers on each side, the upper ones gradually shorter; spathels very 
rowded, bracteiform, coneave and almost boatshaped, strongly striately veined, acute 
or obtuse; involucre cupular, truncate, entire, not distinctly two-keeled or bidentate 
on the side next to the axis. Male flowers very approximate or one in contact with 
the other, perfectly bifarious in one plane, almost horizontally inserted, oblong, 
slightly apiculate at the summit, 3:5 mm. long; the calyx thick in texture, black 
when dry, indistinctly and coarsely veined, with 3 lizht-bordered broad acute teeth ; 
the corolla twice as long as the calyx, polished outside. Other parts unknown. | 
Hasrrar.—German New Guinea at Sattelberg in Kaiser Wihelmsland, Bamler 
No. 39 in Herb. Berol. 
OBSERVATIONS.—A very handsome species approaching C. vestitus in its extraordi- 
narily large ocreas which are even larger than in this; furthermore very remarkable 
by its leaves with not numerous, distinctly grouped, and lanceolate unicosta 
: : te leaflets ; 
and by the compact short paniculate male spadix. 
